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SPSS Help

  • 11-04-2012 1:14pm
    #1
    Bobbles Smobbles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭


    Hi I was just wondering if any body out there could offer me a bit of help. I am currently completing my undergraduate thesis in psychology. The Thesis topic is to investigate the relationship between personality type and alcohoic consumption among college students. For my thesis I used the Big Five Personality inventory as the tool to determine personality types and the Audit test to determine levels of alcohol consumption. As a part of my thesis I am required to use to programme SPSS which I am still trying to figure out how to use. At the moment I am a bit confused as to how to actually enter the data into the programme. Also I am unsure if I need a variable box for each specific personality type of would the one bo suffice...If anyone has any advice pleame PM me and I can forward on the input I have completed so far as it will not let me attach it here. Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    Valmont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭Valmont


    Andy Field's book is as good a crash course you can get in SPSS to help you in the short-run (it's also the best book on statistics for psychology students, imo) and if you're unsure as to how to enter data, a quick crash-course might be what you need.

    But I would recommend that you visit the Researcher forum to get more help; I couldn't have completed my undergraduate dissertation without them. Sorry I can't be of more assistance but I don't have access to SPSS at the moment!


  • #3
    hotspur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭hotspur


    I'm not 100% clear about what your confusion is.

    Notwithstanding demographic or other variables, as described you are going to have 6 variables - 5 are the Big 5 ones and one is alcohol consumption. How could the 5 Big variables possibly be amalgamated into one variable?

    What does your Big 5 Personality Inventory data look like? Do you have the actual scores on each dimension? The AUDIT will be numerical presumably.

    If these assumptions are correct then the will have these 6 variables across the top rows and the number each participant got in each of them down the respective columns.

    Then you are free to compute correlations between each BIG 5 variable and the AUDIT score. You can also then do a regression analysis to see which BIG 5 variables (along with other demographic info is available) can significantly contribute to a good model of predicting alcohol consumption.

    There is virtually no normal SPSS question that you cannot have answered in video form on Youtube if you search. For tests on SPSS ones such as those produced by how2stats are excellent.


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